Danzakidakura:
I wonder who give that man prof,him and that mumuric man. INEC chairman over to you we are waiting reply this question. You are a disgrace to profs

Lalasticlala.. This is a front page something.
Snakes dey inside too.

tatatar:

Do you think a Creed will scare atheists from commenting on your thread

It's not about scare. Not at all.
It's all about Jesus Christ.
Let those people click by themselves that they believe in Jesus Christ. That alone is a big gospel to the heart.
The confession of Our Lord Jesus Christ by clicking alone is a big gospel on its own.

Seun:

Can you give me 5 examples of tribal posts that the mod in charge (mynd44) did not remove? Just post the links here. Did you report them?

Please Seun.. We need you to introduce a creed for Christian threads too, so that whomever that wants to comment on threads that are specifically for Christians would confess that He is a true Christian, and that Jesus Christ is the one and only true son of God, and also that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world, and the personal Lord and Saviour of the person who was about to comment on such Christian threads..
Please..
I don't really like how Non-Christians derail purely Christian threads with lots of bad comments

Fidelismaria:
If this thread makes FP I'll deactivate my account

My Guy,, Deactivate your acoount Immediately..

1realBobby:
I see them often in my room.. Like 4 to 5 everyday. No big deal.

Anyways, guys I create beautiful 3D logos for your business... Just check out my signature and contact me now

You live inside Bush??
Don't they ever bite you?

MadeINchenzen2:
perhaps u want to justify the fact that u disowned ur family... now you're living alone.

Go back home and ask for forgiveness. Dont be a bad girl. Men thinks of girls who lives alone as prostitutes. 1 word for u. Be wise

So, a young guy that left his family to live elsewhere didn't disown his family?
Remember what Jesus told the people that wanted to stone the prostítute? They all knew they have slept with her.
This post of yours sounds like the words of those men that came to stone the woman..
Gender Hypocrisy.

Spacko007:
Before coming online to show your ignorance please do some research, recycling of abandoned sims is a regulation by NCC, so channel your grievances to the right place. Secondly you claimed the keep my number service is not well publicized I disagree with that, you can walk into any of their offices and make enquiries or call their helpdesk. Stop this emotional blackmail.

Oga Researcher..
Well done oo.
Since you are good in researches, I want you to do a research on the popularity of the Keep my number services and publish it on Nairaland or any other media you prefer and bring it to my attention.
You can sample any range of random respondents.
Get the following information from them..
1. Ask them what they would probably do to their sim-cards and phone numbers if they happen to get an invitation to travel abroad and stay for up to five years.
2. Ask them if they know about anything called Recycling of Numbers.
3. Then, ask them if they know about the Keep My Number Services..
...
You would be most highly disappointed..
The result you would get will be that only about 0.007% of the Nigerian population knows about the Keep My Number service, whereas, only about 4% may know about recycling of numbers.
Well publicised my foot!! And you still want me to enter their offices to have it publicised on my individual head.. Is that how you people do your own publicising in your firm??

MansoryMX:


Don’t be offended. You sound stup1d

Thanks for reformatting him a little.

Melonny:
Not only MTN, I recently bought an Airtel Sim and I have been getting calls from people. My new sim was previously used by a 'Cray fish' seller.. I get about 10 calls everyday from people trying to order Cray fish or has made payments to the account. I am tired already, I made a complaint to Airtel. The only thing I got was the policy states that when a sim is inactive for 180 days then they can sell it to another person.
Just imagine what could happen to the customers money if I am heartless!

Oohh.. Thanks goodness that you are not heartless.
I can imagine how fed-up you are with the line already.

ImaIma1:


My guy ke! The elderly man was a bank customer. By the time we called the "thief", he started crying on the phone . He didn't even have the liver for what he was doing.

We just advised the customer to change the number for his account. This was about 5 years ago. So this recycling number problem didn't just start.

Hmmmm..
This is just one of the rampant problems caused by recycling.
And the truth is, most people won't just want trouble.
They would just forgive the “thief” and move on.

ImaIma1:
That's how one guy kept loading airtime from an elderly man's pension account because of this same line recycling. He loaded almost 20k airtime over a period of time

Who do we blame here??
Meanwhile, if DSS gets at that your guy, he is going in for it ooo.

edoairways:

Ignorance and poor education of Nigerians by the regulatory commission is the root cause of this menace. They just have to come up with something reasonable to resolve the issue raised by op

Thank you for understanding the direction I am coming from.

musicwriter:


For all the countries I've been, there's no difference between the way MTN recycle inactive phone lines in Nigeria and the way its done elsewhere. As a matter of fact, Nigeria is not the only country where MTN does business. I am on a business trip outside Nigeria as I write, and I have two MTN lines right now previously owned my a native here. And yes, I received his/her bank alert few days ago but which I quickly deleted.

Every GSM company every place I know, recycle inactive numbers. Its not only done in Nigeria.

Is Buhari's daughter the only person in Nigeria who've ever dumped a phone line before? How about millions of other Nigerians who have used several phone lines in the past but which now belong to someone else?

The problem is not MTN but because you're ruled by a tyrant who can imprison you up for 10 weeks because you innocently purchased a phone line previously used by his daughter. When a country has a bad leader, the people live in fear. You jailed someone because he bought a phone line formerly used by your daughter?!!. I just can't get my head around this. This type of news is unheard of even in North Korea.

Let the courts decide that one.. Even though we don't trust them either.

valiju:
I bought a new SIM card some months ago I wanted to top up airtime for internet data ,so I dial GTB ussd code from my sim 2 instead of my sim 1 .
To my greatest suprise the transaction was successful and I ended up buy airtime from the previous owner of the new line I recently bought, I have to visit GTB to deactivate the line from that account

Maybe, Nigeria is not yet ready for all the lots of products and services which they are making available to the vulnerable Nigerians.

Morikaih:







thanks for the write up Bro..

The problem here is our Old cargo and primitive ones called NCC , they have messed up this country hence MTN can take advantage

A nation of 200Mil without database has the power to reassign subscriber identification number without any consultation either from criminal dept or society..

NCC is a disgrace and full of old fools that are in the system without basic Technology know how..

Hmmm.
There is trouble.

edoairways:

decatalyst is right on this one. Majority of Nigerians don't read instructions on the products or service they buy. Secondly the regulatory commission are helping matters, rather they charge huge amount to issue new number series. The service providers had no choice than to re issue old lines since it cost more to get new number series (0803,0806, etc).

And now, we are not finding any of it funny any longer..
Recycling may be a standard international practice,, but it is really posing great problems to the Nigerian Users.

vandertommy:
it's actually a directive from NCC to block or recycle lines that have been dormant for more than 6 months. So NCC is actually to be bamed for all these

Wooowww.!!
Only 6 months??
That's too short.

Jabioro:
My friend up till last Friday still receiving alerts of millions of naira messages..he tired,broke and need of money..if police especially SARS the
yahoo searchers get hold of that his phimaginee that. would think they have arrived....their matter na ole gbe ole gba.. meanwhile he knows nothing about it

You can just imagine that...
What if this guy tried to use some mobile ussd codes to load airtime of up to N100,000 or even more, without using PINS or Passwords; then, by the time it would be discovered, he would be wanted for fraud.
But they were the ones that first put the poor guy into serious temptation.

decatalyst:


You see, most of you guys that think you are literate enough to know right or wrong are actually not so literate and intelligent. No pun intended.
And the main problem is that majority of Nigerias don't read at all or just read to get the headlines.

In the sim pack you bought, there are terms and conditions...most Nigerians don't even know they are not the owner of these numbers...just like the prepaid meter you use your money to buy!

But how will you know this? You don't read at all! And the relevant government agencies are not doing enough! I wonder what NOA is there for. NCC is really trying...doing radio sensitization programmes...but majority of the educated illiterates are on the internet and barely get the drift.

It is not only about MTN, but it's what's applicable across board. No telco will leave a line for over one year without a customer using it and they continue to pay taxes on it. I cannot work that way fa.

Lots of Nigerians are having lots of problems with their newly bought lines which still had lots and lots to do with their former owners, and you are here talking about Terms and Conditions..
There are real problems here, and you are there quoting some silly T&C ideals..
ROBOTS EVERYWHERE.!!
I don't blame you a bit anyway..

oluwaseyi000:

What's holding your own hand from writing that?

Thanks for lashing him promptly and properly.

Boldbode:
@Poster, recycling of inactive SIM is a general rule not limited to just MTN.
You may address your letter to NCC. The telecoms are regulated by NCC.

Thanks for this.
I will seek out a way to let NCC see this.
Thanks once again.

themonk:
Your open letter should be to the NCC who sets the standards
Numbers are recycled everywhere even in the US. You do not own a number for a lifetime and you accepted that contract by using a SIM card. You must recharge and use your credit to use a billable service to keep using your number.

In Nigeria, we copy a lot, and we end up pasting wrongly after every every..
That's Just all I can say on this for now.

Firstorderwizard:
A protest letter against recycling of old, worn-out polithieves like bubu,Tibubu and Lai would have added sense into this write up

You can do it bro.
At least, let it be your own contribution to this since it bothers you this much.
I eased out the one that was bothering me.
It's time you ease out your own tension.
Stop waiting on someone else.
Stop trying to be a parasite on another person's efforts.

Pat081:
Why the man and not the useless mtn network ??same tin is happen to my glo &etisalat line anytime i use it to call people truecaller will show Pastor Sunday or Lawyer David and i hv b to their office many times they hv done ntin to it any way that is 9ja for us always moving back ward

Wait..
So GLO and Etisalat (or abi 9mobile) do the same thing to people too?

olaremint:
Most people don't understand the legal tactics, by saying that it was the presidency that ordered his arrest and reported him, the case is dead on arrival. The presidency has immunity, the daughter does not have, so they cleverly stated that it was the presidency meaning no civil or criminal action may be brought against the person in that office. Mr Okolie should go and sleep. The lesson learnt is that u can't fight the government. Its just stupid.

So, was it Buhari that ordered the arrest??
Who exactly is the Presidency?
It is only Buhari and Osinbajo that has immunity..
Every other person there can be sued.

Monday60655:
MTN should be hold responsible.

This Is Exactly My Point.

gift2xl:
Lies full this country, this country is the devils house. Because the dude has sue them to court, they want to turn the table round, idiot's, y not hold mtn that recycled the line and sent it to the market for sale. Am pained by what this country is doing to it's citizens. With this type of things, this country is heading to a rock. big fool's that don't value there citizens, rather they're happy subjecting them to pains and suffering. There educational background zero, sometimes I wonder if there is a brain inside there heads. Everything zero. I de vex.

I am of this same opinion.

uruba23:
The President did the right thing .... my Sims was also cloned .....but i suspect connivance with service operators good thing the telecoms minister was shown the way out....

It is possible that your lines were not actually cloned.
May, they were recycled..
Have you investigated properly??

Racoon.. You can see this too.

Ay04z:
Seconded, first page material unless lalasticlala is one one of mtn staff

You know, there are no snakes on this thread.. But there are lots of sense here.

Dear MTN..

I am going to be very brief on this, but I would make my points very clear.

You people had been doing “recycling of numbers” of innocent Nigerians who had not used their lines for up to one year or more, and the only remedy you guys put in place was to introduce a service known as “Keep My Line”, which you guys did not even sensitize the citizens on or make popular enough, and as a result, lots of the helpless Nigerian citizens did not even know about this service.

This had cause a lot of people to loose their precious numbers just like that, only because they had the opportunity of travelling abroad for some jobs or for studies, or maybe for one serious reason or another had a good cause to temporarily abandon their main lines for more than one year..

MTN, you guys never thought that these recycled lines might had been connected to the original owners bank-accounts, and that the new owners of these lines would now be given express unchecked access to these bank account through the USSD Mobile Banking Methods.

...Yess..
Someone recently bought a new line, and with all the happiness that he was able to still see a “0803...” number still available, the next thing he started seeing were messages from lots of people he never knew, lots of calls from unknown persons mistaking him to be the husband of one certain lady and telling him to hand the phone over to her so that they can talk to her directly.. Meanwhile, this guy had not married. He doesn't even have a serious girlfriend at the moment. To cap it all, he continued receiving series of endless debit and credit alerts on his phones of transactions he knows absolute nothing about.
He first went to the bank to stop the endless alerts, but they told him that he wasn't the one to apply for the change of number, but the original owner of the bank-account.

Now, imagine that this guy here has someone working in the bank who is ready to divulge information to him for some chicken change,, all he needs is just the correct account number of the person, and he would activate the USSD mobile banking options on the bank account..
What if the original owner had already activated USSD Mobile Banking?? In that case, all that the new owner of the line would do is just to dial the USSD mobile banking code for the bank, and start trying his best to change the transaction PIN or Password.

Dear MTN, if you guys may recall,, there is a recent issue which is already in court between You (MTN), Hanan Buhari (President Buhari's Daughter), The DSS, and one Anthony Okolie from Delta State.

To be honest, you MTN are the main cause of all the problems here. You guys blocked off Hanan in the first place and she lost her precious line.. Then you went ahead to sell the same line as a new line to an innocent unsuspecting Anthony.
Tell me, is it his fault that he bought the line..
You guys are totally guilty here.

And the earlier you stop doing this recycling of numbers, the better for you guys.
More criminal cases are still coming.

The case of Anthony Okolie and Hanan Buhari is just the beginning.

Racoon:


https://punchng.com/presidency-ordered-probe-of-man-using-hanan-buharis-old-line-dss/

MTN is the cause of all these nonsense..
They had been doing recycling of numbers of innocent Nigerians who had the opportunity of travelling abroad, or people who for one serious reason or another had to abandon their main line for more than one year..
MTN never knew that these recycled lines might be connected to the original owners' bank accounts, and that the new owners of these lines would now be given express unchecked access to these bank account through the USSD Mobile Banking Methods..